formative assessment 3
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FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT
Strategy 2Eliciting Evidence of Learners’ Achievement
Contact Time 29.07.16
Session 3
Formative Assessment in RGPS
Formative Assessment
Key Strategies
Learning Intentions & Success Criteria
Eliciting Evidence of Learner’s
Achievements
Feedback to Move Learning Forward
Students as Learning Resources
for One Another
Students as Owners of their Own Learning
Assessment Design
Assessment Plans for
all departmen
ts
Teachers as Lesson Designers
LEARNING INTENTION & SUCCESS CRITERIA (Session 1)• Understand what
formative assessment is• Use formative
assessment strategies effectively • Identify examples and
non-examples of formative assessments
• Explain what formative assessment is
LEARNING INTENTION & SUCCESS CRITERIA (Session 2)• Understand what
formative assessment is• Use formative
assessment strategies effectively
• Understand what learning intentions & success criteria are
• Use learning intentions & success criteria effectively in the classroom
LEARNING INTENTION & SUCCESS CRITERIA
• Understand what learning intentions & success criteria are
• Use learning intentions & success criteria effectively in the classroom
Checking for understanding:
Do you understand what learning intentions & success criteria are?If yes, give a
If no, give a
LEARNING INTENTION & SUCCESS CRITERIA
• Understand what learning intentions & success criteria are
• Use learning intentions & success criteria effectively in the classroom
Checking for understanding:
Share your successes or challenges in using learning intentions & success criteria.
Strategy 2:Eliciting Evidence of Learner’s
Achievement
• Understand what formative assessment is
• Use formative assessment strategies effectively
• Understand what it means to elicit evidence of learners’ achievement
• Able to elicit evidence of learners’ achievement in the classroom
Strategy 2:Eliciting Evidence of Learner’s
Achievement
Next, we need to ascertain where the students are in their
learning.
Most teachers will plan the instructional activities in which they will engage their students, but rarely plan in detail how they are going to find out where the students are in their learning.
Strategy 2:Eliciting Evidence of Learner’s
Achievement
Questioning Techniques
All student response
So how do we find
out what students know?
Strategy 2:Eliciting Evidence of Learner’s
AchievementWhy does this matter?When we ask students a question and we get the answer we were hoping for, we tend to conclude that the students’ learning is heading in the right direction.
If our questions are more like the 1st question than the 2nd, there is real danger that we will assume that our students’ learning is on track when it is in fact headed in the wrong direction.
Strategy 2:Eliciting Evidence of Learner’s
AchievementQuestionin
g Techniques
All student response
So how do we
find out what
students know?
Questioning Techniques
2 good reasons to ask questions
To cause thinking
To provide information for the
teacher about what to do next
Questioning Techniquesa) Student Engagement
Questioning
Techniques
All student response
So how do we
find out what
students know?
One teacher described his classroom as such:“I’d become dissatisfied with the closed Q&A style that my unthinking teaching had fallen into, and I would frequently be lazy in my acceptance of right answers and sometimes even tacit complicity with a class to make sure none of us had to work too hard…..They and I knew that if the Q&A wasn’t going smoothly, I’d change the question, answer it myself or only seek answers from the “brighter students”. There must have been times (still are?) where an outside observer would see my lessons as a small discussion group surrounded by many sleepy onlookers.”
Questioning Techniquesa) Student Engagement
Questioning
Techniques
All student response
So how do we
find out what
students know?
High engagement classroom environments increases student achievement
No hands up except to ask a question
“Pose-pause-pounce-bounce”
• Pose a question, Pause for at least 5 seconds, pounce on 1 student at random for the answer and then bounce that student’s answer to another question at random, saying, “What do you think of that answer?
Questioning Techniquesa) Student Engagement
Questioning
Techniques
All student response
So how do we
find out what
students know?
How do we choose students at random?Popsicle Sticks
• Adding sticks for inattentive students• Students to be selectors for the day• Leave chosen sticks out of the beaker• 2 at random, 3rd to answer• Do not allow students to opt out by
saying “I don’t know”. Always go back to the student and offer possibilities e.g. “Phone a friend”, “ask the audience”.
Questioning Techniquesa) Student Engagement
Questioning
Techniques
All student response
So how do we
find out what
students know?
How do we choose students at random?
What are some of your views so far?
Questioning Techniquesb) Wait Time
Questioning
Techniques
All student response
So how do we
find out what
students know?
• Teachers do not allow students much time to answer questions, and if they do not receive a response quickly, they will often “help” the student by providing a clue, weakening the question in some way or moving on to another student.
• Allow wait time esp for questions that require thought
Questioning Techniquesb) Wait Time
Questioning
Techniques
All student response
So how do we
find out what
students know?
• Teachers do not allow students much time to answer questions, and if they do not receive a response quickly, they will often “help” the student by providing a clue, weakening the question in some way or moving on to another student.
• Allow wait time esp for questions that require thought
Questioning Techniquesc) Alternatives to Questions
Questioning
Techniques
All student response
So how do we
find out what
students know?
• Asking questions might not be the best way to generate good classroom discussions.
• “Are all squares rectangles?” vs “All squares are rectangles.”• Students seem to respond more thoughtfully because they
realise that just agreeing or dissenting is not enough: reasons have to be given.
• Quality if discussion is enhanced when students are given opportunity to discuss before responding (THINK-PAIR-SHARE)
Questioning Techniquesc) Interpretive Listening
Questioning
Techniques
All student response
So how do we
find out what
students know?
Questioning Techniquesc) Interpretive Listening
Questioning
Techniques
All student response
So how do we
find out what
students know?
Questioning Techniquesc) Interpretive Listening
Questioning
Techniques
All student response
So how do we
find out what
students know?
• “Listening is the best way to learn. You have to listen to those who you are supervising.” (Serwer,2010)
• What matters is how you listen.
• Often, we focus on the correctness of the answers than what we can learn about the student’s understanding. We say things like, “Close, almost, nearly, try again.”
• Evaluative Listening: “Give me the correct answer so I can get on with the rest of the lesson.”
Questioning Techniquesc) Interpretive Listening
Questioning
Techniques
All student response
So how do we
find out what
students know?
• Interpretive listeners know that there is often information about HOW to teach something better in what students say.
• With this information, they can adjust the instruction to better meet students’ needs.
• “When Miss XXX used to ask a question, she used to be interested in the right answer. Now she’s interested in what we think.” What kind of listener
am I at most times? Why?
Questioning Techniquesd) Question Shells
Questioning
Techniques
All student response
So how do we
find out what
students know?
• Is a square a trapezoid vs Why is a square a trapezoid?
• Is a bat a mammal vs Why is a bat a mammal and a penguin not?
• These are some ways to frame questions that are likely to reveal students’ thinking.
All Student Response System
Questioning
Techniques
All student
response
So how do we
find out what
students know?
Thinking ThumbsFist to FiveTraffic LightABCD Cards
Mini WhiteboardsExit Passes
Trying it outEliciting Evidence of Learner’s
AchievementStrategy
2To
ascertain where the students
are in their
learning.
Strategy 2: Eliciting Evidence of Learners’ Achievement
Where are my students in their learning?
O Student Engagement _____________________
O Wait time_ ______________________________
O Interpretive Listening ____________________
O Question Shell __________________________O All Student Response
____________________
Sharing our viewsEliciting Evidence of Learner’s
Achievement
Strategy 2:Eliciting Evidence of Learner’s
AchievementStrategy
3To provide
feedback to learners
about what to do next
Strategy 2To
ascertain where the students
are in their
learning.
Strategy 1
Importance of being
clear about what we
want students to
learn